sjtown Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 Hello All, Today I have attempted to get a MiniMac Profile to work in the Fat Frog. We have had the desk for about 4-5 months but have not needed to use the MiniMac with it until now. I decided to make sure I could get it to work before next week when we are going to use it for a couple of small shows. I set up a single Minimac using mode 1 on one channel and mode 3 on another to see if there was any operating difference between the two as it doesn’t work on the other modes. I patched them in and both modes worked successfully, changing the dmx address on the minimac to correspond to each fixture channel. I then decided to remove the fixture from channel 2 on mode 3. After doing this I went to use the fixture left on channel 1 but the LCD display displayed random numbers and letters eg '%9h4ns8-' for each of the properties on the wheel such as Tilt and Gobo etc. Not only this but the colour scroll also changed itself to the tilt function! I have tried to use the Minimac once before but gave up on it as it started displaying the same random figures, but at that time I put it down to not having updated the desk with the updated software disk (8.1). During both of these attempts it has also crashed many times!! Hope that’s understandable! Please reply ASAP! Cheers, Steve T Quote
K-Nine Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 I must admit I'm somewhat confused about what you are actually trying to achieve here :roll: How many physical fixtures have you got connected to the desk and in which mode are they set up to operate. With the MiniMAC profile the number of DMX channels required and the allocation of the parameters (shutter, colour, gobo, pan, tilt etc.) to the channels depends on the mode that the unit is set to operate in Mode 1 requires 6 channels and has 8 bit pan/tilt Mode 2 requires 8 channels and has 16 bit pan/tilt Mode 3 requires 8 channels and has 8 bit pan/tilt Mode 4 requires 10 channels and has 16 bit pan/tilt Unless you have a lot of fixtures on the desk and are running short of channels, I would recommend using Mode 4 and this gives you access to all functions of the MiniMAC and gives you better control of pan/tilt movement. Quote K-Nine : Technically Advanced Roving Dog In Space Bran Media | Myspace
sjtown Posted February 5, 2004 Author Report Posted February 5, 2004 Ok, it is confusing when you actually read it! Sorry! Well put it this way, simply setting up the desk to run a single Minimac in any of the modes displays the random figures for each of the wheels properties, resulting in the wheels and Minimac not functioning correctly and eventually crashing the desk.... What I explained before just involved me testing the different modes to see if the desk would display the random figures each time, and not functioning correctly. Steve Quote
K-Nine Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 Could you try downloading the latest fixture library from HERE. Using this file try assigning your fixtures to the MiniMAC profiles and see if you still get the same problem. It may have been some corruption in the fixture data file you had originally. Quote K-Nine : Technically Advanced Roving Dog In Space Bran Media | Myspace
sjtown Posted February 5, 2004 Author Report Posted February 5, 2004 Ok will do! I will try it again tomorrow and let you know. Cheers. Quote
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